cloud-fan edited a comment on issue #24991: [SPARK-28188] Materialize Dataframe 
API
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/24991#issuecomment-511712741
 
 
   I've spent more time understanding the use case, and think table cache 
should be a better choice here
   1. disk vs memory: you can set the storage level to disk-only with more than 
one copy, which is more reliable than shuffle files.
   2. shuffle service: it supports RDD blocks as well thanks to 
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/24499
   
   In addition, the table cache has more advantages:
   1. It can work for any dataframes, even without shuffles
   2. other queries can benefit from table cache automatically
   
   You do have a point that table cache is lazy, but we can add a flag to 
control it. e.g. `def cache(eager: Boolean = false)`

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